President Putin went on to say that “it would be strongly undesirable if someone wins a monopolist position,” implying that Russia’s breakthroughs would ideally be shared with other nations.

Also, Putin is looking forward for a future where wars are fought and won with the use of drones, saying “when one party’s drones are destroyed by drones of another, it will have no other choice but to surrender.”

Tracing the global history,, technological superiority very easily translates into global political power.

The scenario was never more clear than in the aftermath of World War II, which saw the rapid proliferation of nuclear weapons.

US and former Soviet Union, two most powerful countries were made so by the advancement of nuclear technology. However, since each side was relatively matched in terms of their capabilities and mutually assured destruction, we were able to squeak past with not much more than a few skirmishes and a decades-long standoff.